The Satuit Nimrod

KC's Game Feed

It's right around the corner!

Saturday, January 24th is the date for the 46th KC's Annual Game Feed. All you have to do is show up and eat, drink win raffles prizes and auctions and just have FUN; easy peasy! 

The event starts at 11:00 am and runs until 4:00 pm. Admission is $40/person, 18 years and under are free. Bring your appetite as there will be game such as venison, goose and duck plus a spit-roasted wild hogs that will be roasted at the club along with hamburgers and hotdogs. Additionally, there will be a Seafood Tent and Raw Bar. 

Skeet and Trap

Skeet and Trap are back and running as normal thanks to  the efforts of Mike Sheehan, Greg Morse and Bill Berry. 

Skeet is shooting on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Trap is  shooting on Saturday mornings and Tuesday evenings. See the Calendar section below for times.

Cowboy Action Shooting

The Gunnysackers are are on a winter hiatus when it comes to traveling, but will continue to hold matches at our club.

Pistol

The Pistol Committee held a Miss and You're Out! match on Saturday, January 3rd. Being January, Mother Nature was up to her tricks and the day was cold and miserable. The three shooters who showed up just shot for fun.

The next pistol match will be held on a balmy day in February; exact date and format TBA.

Safety Course

The monthly Safety Course is now given on the first Wednesday and Thursday of the month.

Combined Skeet and Trap League

The league combines 5 rounds of Skeet along with 5 rounds of Trap. The league will start on February 1st and end on March 27th.

 There is a sign-up sheet on the backboard in the clubhouse. Sign-up with your, honest, average for both skeet and trap. Cost is $10 to join the league; you will still have to pay for your rounds of skeet/trap.

There will be two teams. Teams will be determined by balancing the averages posted on the sign-up sheet. You will not shoot as a team; shoot any time and post your score in the clubhouse.

Prizes TBD. For questions contact Dave Glancy.

Quotes of the Month

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man"

~ Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

"The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous when the streets are full of "civilians" who may or may not be armed. Poor babies!"

~ Col. Jeff Cooper

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

 ~ George Orwell

S.E. Mass. Sporting and Conservation Alliance (formerly Plymouth County League of Sportsmen) News

The Healey-Driscoll Administration announces public listening sessions on expanding hunting opportunities in MA and will hold listening sessions in January and February to gather public input on Sunday hunting, hunting with crossbows, and setback limits.

The full article on the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife can be read here.

Also, SEMSCA is seeking sportsmens direct input to inform science-based wildlife management decisions across the state for years to come. Their survey can be found here. 

Welcome Aboard
Scituate Rod & Gun Club welcomes these new members who have joined us recently:

Justin Bessette

Zachariah Bowyer

Douglas Cushing

Rick Lordan

Eric Wellman

Updating A Legend: Ruger Makes 10/22 Upgrades Standard

by Jeremiah Knupp — posted on December 30, 2025 in NRA American Rifleman.

In all areas of technology, certain designs rise to the top, dominate and become so popular, they become the industry-wide standard as soon as their patent protections expire. In few categories is that process more evident than firearms, with models from the Remington Model 700 to the AR-15 becoming the de-facto pattern in their respective categories.

When it comes to a semi-automatic .22 LR rifle, that benchmark is the Ruger 10/22, a design of which more than 10 million have been produced over the last 60 years, dominating every field from plinking to competition. In the course of those decades, aspects of the 10/22, from its magazine to its barrel design, have been adopted by other manufacturers. Competition is a good thing and in response, Ruger has announced updates to keep its factory 10/22 on the top of the pile.

Many of Ruger’s updates have already been introduced for specific 10/22 models, but these elements are now becoming standard across the board. The first of these is the BX-Trigger, originally introduced a decade ago as a drop-in upgrade for 10/22 rifles and Charger pistols. Tuned like a competition trigger, it has a pull weight between 2.5 and 3 lbs., with a crisp break, minimal overtravel, and a positive reset, and is contained within a new polymer housing.

A match-type bolt lock has been added, which allows a bolt that has been manually locked to the rear to be released with a simple pull-and-release of the charging handle, for one-handed operation. The rifle’s receiver now has a cleaning port in the rear, which allows for the barrel to be cleaned from the chamber end with a cleaning rod. 

Standard models of the 10/22 will use a newly designed polymer stock, that has textured panels in the pistol grip and fore-end areas, integrated QD sling swivel mounts, and M-Lok slots in the 6 o’clock position on the fore-end to facilitate the mounting of accessories. A relief is molded into the stock to facilitate removing the magazine.

The rest of the features remain classic 10/22, including an alloy receiver and cold hammer-forged barrel held in place by a V-block system, a crossbolt safety, and a detachable 10-round rotary box magazine. All rifles are drilled and tapped for optics and come with a scope base adapter.

Standard model 10/22s will be available in six configurations. The rifle will be available with either blued or stainless steel barrels with a matching receiver finish with either a 16.4-inch barrel with its muzzle threaded 1/2x28 TPI or an unthreaded 18.5-inch barrel. The rifle will also be offered with a factory-mounted Viridian EON 3-9X 40 mm scope, with a blued finish and either barrel length.

The new models have the following MSRPs:

    Blued, 16.4-inch threaded barrel: $329

    Blued, 18.5-inch barrel: $299

    Stainless, 16.4-inch threaded barrel: $369   

    Stainless, 18.5-inch barrel: $339

    Blued, 16.4-inch threaded barrel, factory-mounted scope: $399

    Blued, 18.5-inch barrel, factory-mounted scope: $369

For more information, see the company’s website.

Club Calendar.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

Monday, February 2nd – 7:30 pm

MONTHLY MEETING

Monday, February 2nd – 8:00 pm

SKEET
Sundays: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Wednesdays: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm.

TRAP

Tuesdays: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Saturdays: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

PISTOL
TBA.

COWBOY
TBA.

KC's GAME FEED
Saturday, January 24th,  11:00 am — 4:00 pm.

SAFETY COURSE
Wednesday, February 3rd –7:00 pm & Thursday, February 4th  – 7:00 pm Register here.

RANGE ORIENTATION CLASS
Sunday, February 8th – 9:00 am Register here.

…And Finally